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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






3. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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4. Whole body learning






5. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






6. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






7. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






8. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






9. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






10. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






11. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






12. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






13. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






14. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






15. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






16. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






17. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






18. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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19. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






20. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






21. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






22. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






23. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






24. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






25. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






26. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






27. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






29. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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30. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






31. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






32. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






33. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






34. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






35. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






37. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






38. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






40. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






41. r-controlled syllable






42. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






43. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






44. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






45. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






46. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






47. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






48. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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49. State Board of Eduation






50. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.